A/N: Ayoo, guess who just got out of summer classes? I did, and after a grueling semester filled with tears and my professors "I'm verry disappointed in the class average on this test. I lived in a wooden shack. I had it hard when I was your age" speeches...I am free.

You know, assuming I don't have to repeat a class.

Anyway, summer time has come, and now I am obligated to update this story!

There might be grammar mistakes - I'm not perfect.

Disclaimer: I don't own anything.

Undisclosed Summer

"You still don't have a clue for what that book is for?" Jazz asked, looking over at her brother from the corner of her eyes with a small frown. It worried her, this 'Clockwork' character that Danny spoke so highly of she didn't completely trust. This ancient ghost that Danny knew seemed to be so powerful, and her brother liked him, no - almost admired this ghost.

Then, where was he when they needed him right now?

Danny was skimming through the pages, trying his best to decipher the words from Esperanto to English. He shook his head in answer to his sister's question but didn't want to lose his train of thought by speaking. This book was already comprehensively hard to read, but now it seemed to have been speaking in riddles – and the young halfa absolutely hated riddles.

Jazz pursed her lips in silence of a few seconds. "Still, I'm impressed that you know this 'ghost language' little brother…" She trailed with a proud smile on her face. "I'd offer to help, but I don't have a clue where to begin."

They walked up to the cabin that they were staying at slowly. Night had crept up on the two teenagers faster than they had wanted. Both of the teens didn't want to see Vlad for the life of them. He seemed to hold all of the cards at the moment, and anything that they would do to get ahead of the man, he would squander.

It was almost as though they were playing a fool's game – although no one wanted to say it, they both didn't know how exactly to win against the older halfa. The best that they could do was draw out the game as long as they could until they came up with something solid.

"Oh, the light is still on…" Jazz commented, making Danny look up from the book. He blinked a few times to focus his vision. His sister was right – the light was definitely on by the side door they had exited out of a few hours prior. "Did mom and dad wait up for us?" She asked, fear creeping in her tone. "They've never done that before."

"Or it could be Vlad…" Danny added with fear also in his tone. At the present moment, he was far more scared of the older halfa than his own parents. Vlad could take away the book that he had just gotten, and then he really wouldn't have any idea on how to fight against him – then he wouldn't have any clue on how to fight against him. "I really hope it's not Vlad."

Jazz walked up the steps to enter the cabin carefully and tested the doorknob. It was unlocked, and she swung it open slowly to glance in the living room. True to what she had thought, her parents were sitting on one of the multiple leather couches in the room with a lamp turned on from the side table. Maddie was reading a magazine while Jack was taking the time to get in a quick nap. Jack's snores and Maddie's casual flipping of the thin book in front of her was all the noise that was happening in the room.

Surreptitiously, the teen girl looked around for Vlad, but couldn't find him. Yet, she knew that even if she couldn't see him, she was absolutely positive that the man was listening in from somewhere. Danny walked in while tucking the book in the back of his shirt so his parents wouldn't see it. If they had, then his father might accuse him of being possessed because the book was written in Esperanto.

Any unnecessary added drama was not something that the younger halfa was willing to deal with right now.

"Hiya, sweeties!" Maddie greeted, closing the magazine and setting it on the side table next to her. Jack suddenly woke up from her voice and quickly looked around. When he spotted his children, he let out a beaming grin. "Did you have fun at the library? Did you all learn something interesting?"

"We did," Jazz responded, glancing at Danny who chose at that moment to let out a confident nod. "We're really learning a lot about Gravity Falls!" She added, hoping that they wouldn't comment on how suspicious they were acting.

Jack let out a booming chuckle that almost seemed to shake the room. Danny sneakily readjusted the book behind his back just in case it might have slipped during some of the conversation. His parents were none the wiser to his actions, or the item that was now expertly hidden. "See, Madds? They didn't want to leave because they're interested in this place!"

Maddie pursed her lips. "Is that really it?" She asked, looking at how pale Jazz had gotten. "Jazz, honey, are you getting enough sleep?" She asked, standing up from the couch. Jack rose an eyebrow at that as he got a good look at his children as well. Maddie walked over to the frozen teens with concern. "Danny, you're also looking a little fatigued!"

"Don't let that research of yours kill the two of you!" Jack lectured in his 'stern' voice that was uncharacteristic of him.

"Uh, we won't, dad, but we are kind of tired…" Danny said with a small smile. "We're just going to head up to our room, now."

Jazz nodded, careful to make it more casual and not rushed. "Yup! See you in the morning!"

The teens started to head up the stairs towards their room. Danny let out a sigh when they closed the door behind them. He leaned against it for a few seconds going over his thoughts. He then rose an eyebrow and looked at his sister. "You don't think Vlad told them anything, do you?"

"No. But it looks like we're going to have to be more careful. The second mom and dad want to head back home, that means it's over."

Danny nodded in agreement. He took the book from behind his back and started to walk over to the small desk that was located in the corner of the room. "I'm going to stay up all night and decode this book. Get some sleep, Jazz, I'll see you in the morning."

Jazz frowned, but decided to not bring any of her concerns for her brother's health public. She walked over to one of the twin beds and pulled the covers away as she sat on the mattress. "Okay, little brother."

Danny yawned for the fifth time in the past ten minutes. He decided that he would get coffee, and by the early sunrise that was peering through his window, he knew it was already morning. A quick glace over at Jazz told him that she was sleeping soundly despite the small lamp on the desk being on all night. Stretching as he stood up, he made his way out of his room and headed down the stairs quietly.

He took a step into the kitchen just to see that Vlad was already making coffee. The young halfa's eyes widened from surprise and fear. He took a step back soundlessly and was about to turn intangible when Vlad let out a dark chuckle.

"Your ecto-signature betrays you, Daniel," Vlad announced, making the teen flinch at getting caught. The older halfa turned around to see him and crossed his arms. He examined the boy and frowned at the condition that his asset was in. "Pulling another sleepless night, are you?"

Danny narrowed his eyes, he didn't like the way that Vlad was looking at him. It was as if the teenager was more so of an object that a person. It might have sounded as though he was concerned about him, but Danny knew better. Vlad was only intrigued by what the young halfa was doing. He couldn't help it when he spat back at the man in anger. "Maybe. Why don't you mind your own business?"

"Dear child, you are my business," Vlad stated with a roll of his eyes. "What sort of thoughtless question was that?" He rhetorically asked. Danny rolled his own pair of eyes at the man's sarcastic tone and walked into the kitchen to get a cup. "Once you're living with me…" he drawled out, causing the teen to tense at the impending doom that the man's next words would bring. "This idiotic sleep schedule of yours will cease."

"Well, you haven't exactly won yet, Vlad…" Danny muttered out, pulling out a cup from the cupboard in front of him as he turned around. Vlad rose an eyebrow at that remark. "Or was that an order from master to apprentice that I should follow?" He snidely continued with a smirk.

Vlad responded with his own smirk, causing Danny to instantly drop his. "I can make it be. Then, you would have to follow my orders as per our deal."

The teen narrowed his eyes once again, they illuminated a small tinge of green. "I really don't like you," he stated, placing the cup on the counter in front of him. Danny was impressed that he hadn't instantly shattered it from his growing anger. Despite how much the young teen hero wanted to pretend that the villain wasn't currently winning…Vlad was.

What was really starting to grind on Danny's nerves was that he couldn't do anything to stop him.

"Perhaps you'll like my coffee…" Vlad trailed as he eyed the coffee maker beeping softly. The red light on the machine signified that it was ready to be served. Danny glanced at the man before letting out a grumble and picked back up the cup. He walked over to the coffee maker and peered into it to see the coffee itself. "I wouldn't poison my son."

"I'm just making sure it doesn't glow," Danny nonchalantly spoke. He poured himself a cup with a frown. "And I'm not your son, Vlad."

Vlad let out a chuckle. "Yet…" He added, pouring himself a cup of the coffee as well. "By the way," he began, eyeing the teen from the corner of his eyes. Danny stilled at the sudden attention being focused on him again. "I've seen that book that you've obtained."

The teen resisted the urge to run up to his room to see if the book was still where he left it. Maybe Vlad had taken this book from him, too. Instead, Danny clenched tightly onto the coffee cup handle to make sure he stayed standing in the same spot.

"I see that you've finally driven yourself to madness. There's nothing written in that book – what do you hope to gain from reading a blank novel?" Vlad asked in a demeaning tone that Danny shrugged off. The teen's eyes went wide with surprise at this realization – Vlad couldn't read the book. It was clearly written in Esperanto, even Jazz could see the different language, although couldn't actually read it. Yet, Vlad only saw void pages.

"Hmm," Vlad hummed while taking a sip of his coffee. He placed the cup away with a smirk. "What are you planning, little badger?"

Danny started to walk away calmly from the older halfa. "Well, I guess that's my secret, isn't it?" He didn't look back to see Vlad's reaction to his words. The teen was close to solving most of the book, he knew it. This way, at least he could put up a fight. There was a chance that he could win this battle of theirs.

Danny had finished translating most of the last chapter and set down his pencil on top of the small notebook. There were a few scribbles here and there, but he could understand it all. Letting out a thin smile, he reread all that he could. He read over the lines over and over again, as though they were a mantra that would save him magically in a horrible situation.

"Daniel?"

The teen let out a heavy sigh and turned around to the closed door. Jazz had gone into the town with their parents, and he was alone in the cabin with Vlad. "What do you want?" He snapped impatiently. He turned over his notebook and positioned his body to be facing towards the door. Vlad opened the door and folded his arms across his chest afterward.

"What do you say we go for a walk?"

Danny blinked a few times at the man, then gazed out the small triangle window of the cabin with a raised eyebrow in confusion. "Dude, the sun is setting. Why the hell would I-?" He asked, looking back over toward the door to see that Vlad had gained a significant distance. The man was now standing in front of him with a smirk on his face.

"You don't have a choice. This is an order."

The teen jumped in his seat and tried to gain any distance that the chair he was sitting in would allow. "O-okay, fine," Danny muttered out, a little paranoid and extremely tired from being up over twenty four hours. "Where are we going?"

"We are going to go for a walk in the city. There is something that I am looking for, and I believe that I've found it."

"I don't like the sound of that," Danny remarked with a glare. "Isn't that why you even came to Gravity Falls to begin with?"

Vlad sneered down at him. "If you're that curious, then we should best get going. Preferably before your parents return, or your meddling sister." Danny watched at the older halfa took a few steps back and waited for the teen patiently.

Danny let out a loud sigh and then followed after the man with a wave of his hand. "Then lead the way, boss. Even if I have to listen to you, you're giving me a great opportunity to stop your plans." Vlad glanced at him as they walked out of the cabin. The teen watched how eerily calm the man was. "Even if it won't be easy."

"I have no doubt that you will try, Daniel."

The teen raised an eyebrow at his words but remained quiet on the matter. He had a bad feeling about this – a terrible feeling, actually. Danny placed his hands in his pants pockets nervously but held a straight face. As long as he doesn't let Vlad know exactly how terrified he was feeling, the teen felt as though he was winning a small battle between them.

They had been walking on the streets of Gravity Falls for a while now. The sun had officially went down, and the teen was wondering exactly where they were. There was some graffiti on the walls around them, and they turned down a few dark alleys more than once. The teen wasn't too sure if he could find his way back to the cabin in the woods that had served as his temporary home for the summer.

"How do you know where we're going?" Danny asked, but then let out a chuckle. "Oh, right, you're a lonely old man who has nothing but time on his hands. I shouldn't really be surprised."

Vlad cleared his throat, immediately gaining the teen's attention. "Do you remember that conversation that we had? The one about you having a numerous amount of leverage I could use against you?" He began in a low tone. The mention of his loved ones and friends caught Danny's focus, and he had stopped walking after the man in front of him. A breathless fear quickly spread through him. He remembered to breathe after finding that he couldn't, and used the rest of his time to keep an eye on the older halfa. The teen settled for a heated glare filled with hate directed at the man's back.

"I swear, if you've hurt any of them-!"

"I had thought I could continue to use them against you." Vlad cut off the teen's empty, heroic courage. He continued on as though he had never been interrupted. "That you wouldn't find a way out of the threat. However, you've proven quite a good point – what if you had simply walked away with them?" Vlad began, turning around in the dark alley that they were both in. Danny clenched his hands, either from anger, annoyance, or nervousness, the teen wasn't exactly sure. "Then, you would do as you please. I wouldn't be able to hold anything over you. Which led me to believe I will still need to use that legend, despite the progress that we have made."

Danny furrowed his eyebrows in confusion. "What are you-?"

However, there was rustling in the alley behind them. The teen turned around and was about to shoot off an ecto-blast. He didn't have time to raise his hand before there was a flash of light hitting his eyes. The teen let out a grumble, now blinded from the flash, and took a few steps back. His hands went immediately up to his eyes and he started to rub them.

"You didn't make him forget anything, did you?" Vlad asked. Although his tone was filled with concern, the teen knew that it was all fake. Danny could hear a group of people walking around him slowly. "This isn't the right time."

"Of course not," Gideon's voice said and then he chuckled. "We have a partnership. I wouldn't want to do anything to jeopardize that."

Danny let out a growl, and he raised his hands over to where he had thought he heard the voices. Relentlessly, he attacked, firing blast after blast at his unwanted enemies. Still blind, he felt several hands latch onto him and force him to the ground. "Let go of me!" He yelled out, with a grimace from hitting the ground violently.

The teen tried his best to open his eyes to see the nearby surroundings, but the images were blurry. Still, it was better than nothing, and the young halfa turned intangible. The caused the three people holding him down fall onto the ground suddenly. He blinked multiple times trying to clear his vision when he appeared inside of an abandoned building.

He continued to rub his eyes with his hands, but felt an ecto-blast hit his upper body before he could have the chance to open his eyes again. When he collided against a nearby brick wall, he let out a grumble of pain while getting up on his hands and knees from the ground. "You're fighting dirty, Vlad! What's your point? What the hell is this legend that you're talking about?"

"Daniel, haven't you figured anything out? I would think that your IQ was a bit higher than that…" He trailed in an amused tone. Danny could hear the man's heavy, intimidating footsteps. Shakily, the teen stood to his feet and started to blast once again. "A little more to your left," came a low voice close to his right ear. Startled, the teen raised a clenched fist to hit the man, but Vlad had beaten him to it. The older halfa dove his fist into the teen's abdomen, causing Danny to hunch over, and the breath to be knocked out of him.

"Ugh…You…!" Danny got out before he hit the ground.

Vlad let out a chuckle. "If I haven't made it blatantly obvious, I'm going to erase all memories of your pathetic friends and everyone you care about."

There was a brief silence as Danny took in his words. He placed a hand over his abdomen where the hit had landed and stood up on his feet. The teen opened his eyes and could faintly see Plasmius' form hovering over him. It was then that everything that Clockwork had done to help him was coming back – the book that he had gotten from the library.

At first, the chapters didn't make sense – but now? Now, they were all being pieced together. Would he be able to hold out against a machine or object that could make people's memories disappear?

"Do your worst, Vlad. You won't win!" Danny muttered out with a triumphant smirk. The teen's hands were visibly shaking, and Vlad noticed it. The older halfa remained silent for a few seconds and instead smirked.

"Your fake valiance is certainly endearing if nothing else…" Vlad commented and then shrugged dramatically. "If you say for me to do my worst, little badger, then I'll make sure not to disappoint you." The man raised a gloved fist and aimed it at the teen.

Danny closed his eyes and tensed up.

This was going to hurt.

There was faint murmuring and Danny slowly started to wake up from the darkness. However, he didn't have enough energy to raise his head. Vlad wasn't kidding when he said that he was going to do his worst – the teen was so sure he had a large bump on the top of his head.

He let out a groan and wanted to desperately open his eyes. There was a faint humming somewhere in the darkness, but the sickening thumping in his head was enough to make him nauseas. Clenching his eyes tightly, he heard a set of footsteps faintly walking up to him.

"Now you'll be strictly obedient to me. Of course, I won't take everything – your teenage wit is something that I've grown quite fond of."

There was a dull edge of something cold that went against the teen's temple. Danny took in a shaky breath and slowly opened his eyes. He could see Vlad's figure in the overall darkness of the room with his heightened sense of sight. Eyeing how Vlad's finger was resting on the trigger of the device that seemed to look like a type of gun. There was a horizontal thin light bulb that was pointing at him, and he leaned his head back against the chair that the teen was resting on.

Danny wasn't surprised to see that the chair had green, glowing restraints holding his wrists down. "I seriously have to puke…" He muttered, not so much as intimidated at what was about to happen compared to what already was. "Did you have to hit me that hard?" The teen continued and closed his eyes.

"It's not as though you would have went with me had I asked 'please'…" Vlad chuckled out, shaking his head at the teen's simple mindedness.

"You never know," Danny rebutted with a shrug and then opened his eyes once his stomach had finally settled. After feeling much better, he narrowed his eyes. "I'd like to tell you that you won't be getting away with this – but then I'd start to become a broken record." He tested the restraints to see if they were weak, but he wasn't too hopeful. After seeing they weren't budging, he clenched his hands against the armrests.

Vlad placed the gun device closer to the teenager, causing Danny to become absolutely still. One would think that he would be accustomed to having guns being pointed at him – but his blood always ran cold whenever it happens. Nothing could prepare you to possibly getting shot. The teen tried to relax himself by slowly breathing out and facing what he thought was the front of the room.

"Let's save the theatrics and get this over with. Once you forget about everything you love, then I will have truly won."

Despite the situation, the teen couldn't help the smirk that slowly started to spread across his face. "Wouldn't it be messed up if I actually cared about you?" Danny spoke in a quiet voice. Vlad's resolve faltered a small, barely noticeable amount. "Then your plans would have been kind of ruined."

"Didn't I say save the theatrics?"

Danny's face became emotionless. "Can't blame a guy for trying…"

Vlad wasted no time in pulling the trigger, and there was a bright flash of light. Somehow, the teen could see the light that seemed to shoot through his head. Danny tried to resist the light entering his mind, and he seemed to enter a strange open space. He was floating in his human form for a while until he entered a small replica of the ghost zone.

At least, that's what the teen had thought – there was a strange green and purple swirl pattern in the sky. On the ground, it was more like a forest like at Gravity Falls. There were a few purple doors around him, and he raised an eyebrow at that.

"What is this, the Ghost Zone?"

A light shot past him, and he took a step back to avoid being collided with it. He let out a gasp and almost fell to the ground. The light zigzagged on an unpredictable path until it stopped straight at a door. The teen quickly followed it to the best of his ability before he also stopped in front of the purple door.

Above said door was a plate that said 'family'.

Narrowing his eyes he raised his hand up and focused all of his will power. In seconds, the purple door had turned to stone just as the light was about to enter it. "Oh, no, you're not getting in there!" Danny yelled, causing the light to turn and face him. "Uh…" He trailed, taking a step back. He rose his hand just as the light ran at him linearly.

Lighting up his hand with an ecto-blast he aimed it at the light, causing it to turn itself intangible for a split second before slamming into him. Danny was sent backwards into one of the multiple trees in the area. Letting out a few coughs, he placed his hands on the ground.

"Okay!" He yelled, placing a hand to where the light had hit him. Lifting up his shirt a small amount, he found that the area was a dark red, and he seemed to have some internal bleeding. "Ouch…?" He asked cautiously, touching the mark to see if it had hurt him.

He flinched when there was a spark, but other than that there wasn't any other pain.

The light hovered to Danny's height and waited for him to stand up. The teen let out a huff before lighting his hands with a light blue light. Jumping up to his feet, he ran across the area while throwing his ghostly icicles at the light entity. When it was about to make contact with it, it burned brightly as the icicles turned to liquid. Danny watched the water droplets fall to the ground with wide eyes, he swallowed nervously, looking up at the light with uncertainty.

"Nothing is working against this thing…!" He hissed under his breath, taking a few steps back before bolting into a full sprint as he ran away from the entity. "Ecto-energy and now my cryokineses…" He rounded a corner and was soon standing in front of a door that said 'enemies'.

Danny stared at the door for a few seconds before an ingenious smirk emerged on his face. "Maybe I can't fight it..." He trailed, turning his head to see the expecting light entity follow behind him. The light sped around the corner, and upon seeing the threat, it seemed to have gained speed.

"Geez!" Danny remarked, quickly opening up the door and jumping into it.

"Well, if it isn't the whelp!"

The teen looked up to see Skulker with one of his multiple weapons drawn. Danny stood up, and backed up a few feet. He noticed an after image of himself doing the same reaction a few feet away from him. Quickly darting his eyes from his doppelganger to his enemy, he opened his mouth in acknowledgement. "Right, this is a memory…" He commented and then furrowed his eyebrows. "Then how am I going to get Skulker to fight this thing?"

The light entity emerged from the door and scanned the room for a second before shining brightly at Danny. The young halfa frowned at that, not knowing a solid plan yet. He quickly dodged and barely had time to turn intangible when the thing charged at him again. Dodge rolling toward his memory of the battle that was currently happening, he grabbed his twin's hand.

Instantly, he was reliving the memory. Blinking his eyes rapidly, he noticed that this was the time back in Walker's jail. Grimacing, he backed up and collided with a chair. "Wait!" He called out, causing Skulker and a few other of his enemies to stop advancing towards him. Danny placed his hands up in surrender and waited for the light to follow him into the memory.

When the light emerged, Danny quickly pointed to it. "I think that's a new weapon of Walker's!" He shouted, causing every one of the enemies in the jail to look at it. The light burned brighter at the sight of new threats interrupting its mission. "Let's work together to beat up that thing, and then you all can beat up me." He spoke, glancing over at Skulker. "Deal?"

"Deal," Skulker spoke, bringing his arm up and his guns protruded from his armor.

Danny took a few cautious steps back and watched as his enemies tried to take down the light. He bumped into something that clearly shouldn't have been there. He had remembered the time he had ended up in Walker's jail – nothing should have been where he backed up. Turning around his eyes went wide when he was face to face with Plasmius. "What the…?"

Plasmius gripped the teen shirt and held him up. "I was concerned on why it was taking so long. Not to mention the fact that you had gotten internal bleeding on your left side…" He mused, brandishing a fanged smirk. "I am impressed. You've managed to last this long – the longest anyone has ever delayed an erasing as I was told."

"Thank you?"

"That wasn't a compliment," Plasmius said emotionlessly, tossing the teen across the prison cafeteria. "If there was somewhere to place fault, I would suspect that book that you've been keeping hush hush…"

Danny landed on a few tables, just as the Lunch Lady was tossed across the room by the light. The teen rolled off of them and quickly stood raising his hand up to the older halfa, who was gaining a considerable distance towards him. He unleashed a barrage of ecto-blasts, while Plasmius put up an ecto-shield with a frown.

The young halfa stumbled backwards and into another long table.

"Why is it that I was never told about this prison trip?" Plasmius spoke in a tone filled with mock disappointment.

"Sorry if 'Oh by the way, I was sent to ghost jail' doesn't pop up in a casual conversation…!" Danny let out a snarky reply but was blasted with one of Plasmius' ecto-blasts in the back. Letting out a hiss, the teen looked behind him to see a duplicate with snuggly crossed arms floating in the air. "I swear, I'll - !" Danny began to say, looking in front of him to tell off the original, but was cut off when Plasmius lifted him up by his throat.

Plasmius narrowed his red, pupil-less eyes at the teen. "You've put up a fight. Even devised a well-thought out plan to eradicate the mind wipe. However, it's time for it all to come to an end."

Danny clawed at the man's hands to get him to let go.

He couldn't win – Danny wouldn't let him win!

Plasmius sent out his electricity attack.

The teen convulsed as the lightning entered his body and slumped over. His eyes became heavy, and soon, he was met with darkness once again.

When the teen woke up, he was met face to face with Vlad. The teen flinched and shrank back in his chair. He was no longer restrained, but the strange man in front of him was enough to put him on edge. "Whoa! That is way too close, dude!" He stated, turning intangible and falling through the chair. Collecting his thoughts for a few seconds, he tried to remember why he was here. However, there were blank spaces instead of memories.

"Daniel."

Danny looked up, expecting to see someone he knew, but instead it was the same man as before. The teen put his hands to his head and quickly stood up. None of this made sense. The man took a step with a concerned look and a raised hand.

"Don't come near me…" He trailed, raising his hand and filling it with ecto-energy. Vlad eyed the ecto-blast color and noticed that it had definitely seemed more powerful than before. There was something off about its color. "I'm warning you…!"

"Daniel, put yourself at ease. I will not hurt you."

"How do you know me?" Danny demanded, taking another step away from the man. "I don't know you. The only one who could do this is…" He trailed, his eyes narrowing before turning a red color. Vlad seemed taken aback once again. "Where is he?" He asked, his voice turning into a menacing growl. "Where's Dan?"

Vlad paused for a second. "Who?"'

"Where is he?!" Danny demanded, now accosting the older halfa with a glare. The teen's now red eyes turned murderous at the thought of the man. "I'll rip him apart molecule by molecule!" He persisted, now almost in front of the older halfa.

"I believe you need to 'chill out' as they say…" Vlad insisted in a calm manner, grasping the mind wipe gun from the table near the chair. "Ah, if only the old you had heard that…" He chuckled humorlessly. He looked up just as Danny was about to lunge at him, condensing his ecto-plasm into an ecto-sword effortlessly. Vlad aimed the mind wipe gun at the teen and fired, causing the teen to become blind.

Danny fell to the ground, dropping his ecto-weapon and placing the palms of his hands on top of his eyes. "Why are you…helping him?"

"I had misinterpreted who the boy cares about, it seems. Even his villains – even me as he said in the beginning. Then…who is this Dan that he speaks of?" Vlad questioned, bending down next to the boy in thought. "A being that is worse than me? After all that I have put him through…and yet he still deems me worthy to care about?"

Danny let out a growl and swiped at Vlad, his hand glowing with ecto-energy.

"Enough, Daniel," Vlad ordered, aiming an ecto-blast at the teen. The older halfa was aiming it for a few seconds, almost as if the teen could clearly see it. "We will need to do this again. Clearly, you have a bigger heart than even I imagined."

"He'll kill you," Danny hissed out. "He'll kill you and then you'll see just what kind of a monster he is."

Vlad remained silent as he knocked the boy out and took the capsule of the boy's newly erased memories. He plugged it back into the gun as he was told to do if he wanted to reverse the process. Aiming it at the teen, he fired it and then fixed the specifications of the gun.

"Let's try this again."

To be continued…

A/N: "If there were two people on the moon, and one killed another with a rock...Would that be fucked up or what?"

I love that meme. It's a similar reference to Danny's, "But wouldn't it be messed up if I actually cared about you?" speech to Vlad. Except more PG than the meme stated above.

I'll try to update this more regularly, but ya'll know I'm filled with empty promises.